Leadership Skills Toolbox

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Consider what you might put in a toolbox if you were going to build something in your home. You might want a hammer, some nails, maybe a level, and if they were available power tools could be a big help and perhaps may the project finish more quickly. The most important part of your toolbox is having tools you know how to use properly and keeping them at your fingertips, ready to use when needed. 

Now that we have reviewed the benefits of focusing on your strengths, as much if not more than areas with room for growth, consider what you would want to have in your leadership toolbox. What strengths have you identified that are your primary tools as a leader? What strength would be the first tool you might take out of your toolbox if you needed to help organize a skilled team? Would you choose a different tool if you moved into a team that had never worked together before?

For this assignment, imagine you are the leader of a group in one of your courses and the assignment is to do a semester-long service learning project. You will need to identify and discuss specific things you could do to create a positive climate, positive relationships, positive communication, and positive meaning in a group with your peers.

First, consider the strengths you have that would help you lead this semester-long project. In your response of at least 300 words include what you would include in your leadership toolbox to help you create a positive and productive leadership style to support your team.

Create a 250-350 word response that includes the following:

• Paragraph 1: Identify at least three of your leadership strengths that are in your leadership toolbox that you can rely on supporting you as a leader in a variety of settings. Include a short description of the strength and why you feel it would be helpful to you as a leader.
• Paragraph 2: Describe what you would use from your toolbox if you were the new leader of a team that was highly skilled in their field. Why do you feel this would be the best choice for this team?
• Paragraph 3: Discuss which choice you would make if you were asked to be the leader of a team that had never worked together before. Provide an explanation of why you would or would not choose something different from your toolbox for this group. 

Please keep in mind, even if you have not had an opportunity to lead a group formally, you can reflect on how you have provided leadership in many different settings to help support your thinking for this reflection.

Complete the final draft of your course project. You can review the detailed requirements for the course project proposal on the Module 01 Course Project – Introduction page.

*****(EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT IS IN THE ATTACHMENTS)*****

Be sure to include all required components of the proposal:

• Title page
• Table of contents
• Outline
• Executive summary
• 4 – 5-page essay that includes purpose statement, problem, original and creative solutions and conclusion sections
• Reference page with at least four sources, two of which must be scholarly
• Visuals
• Appendix if necessary (appendix can include other supporting documents).

Please respond to these discussion points using appropriate grammar and punctuation.

#1) Name two expected outcomes to promote optimal infant growth and developmental needs.  

#2) Pick two typical developmental milestones in the toddler and discuss them.

#3)What are a couple of ways that the nurse can promote the health of the preschooler and family?

#4)  Make a list of nursing diagnoses and expected outcomes for the following clients:

• A mother brings her son to a clinic for a checkup. She tells the nurse that she is concerned because her 4-year-old son is having trouble with his speech and is repeating words and syllables in his sentences.
• Parents of a 3-year-old girl bring her to their pediatrician for a visit. They tell the nurse that they are concerned because their daughter will only allow her father to take care of her and wants to be near him all the time.

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essay 

The first step of the evidence-based practice process is to evaluate a nursing practice environment to identify a nursing problem in the clinical area. When a nursing problem is discovered, the nurse researcher develops a clinical guiding question to address that nursing practice problem.

For this assignment, you will create a clinical guiding question know as a PICOT question. The PICOT question must be relevant to a nursing practice problem. To support your PICOT question, identify six supporting peer-revised research articles, as indicated below. The PICOT question and six peer-reviewed research articles you choose will be utilized for subsequent assignments.

Use the “Literature Evaluation Table” to complete this assignment.

1. Select a nursing practice problem of interest to use as the focus of your research. Start with the patient population and identify a clinical problem or issue that arises from the patient population. In 200–250 words, provide a summary of the clinical issue.
2. Following the PICOT format, write a PICOT question in your selected nursing practice problem area of interest. The PICOT question should be applicable to your proposed capstone project (the project students must complete during their final course in the RN-BSN program of study).
3. The PICOT question will provide a framework for your capstone project.
4. Conduct a literature search to locate six research articles focused on your selected nursing practice problem of interest. This literature search should include three quantitative and three qualitative peer-reviewed research articles to support your nursing practice problem.

Note: To assist in your search, remove the words qualitative and quantitative and include words that narrow or broaden your main topic. For example: Search for diabetes and pediatric and dialysis. To determine what research design was used in the articles the search produced, review the abstract and the methods section of the article. The author will provide a description of data collection using qualitative or quantitative methods. Systematic Reviews, Literature Reviews, and Metanalysis articles are good resources and provide a strong level of evidence but are not considered primary research articles.  Therefore, they should not be included in this assignment.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. 

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Using the below listed case scenario you are to create a 1-2 page paper (excluding the title page and reference page). It is important that you review the APA sample paper and APA requirements for writing your paper. 

 11-year-old boy complains of wheezing and difficulty “getting enough air.” Notices it more when he is playing baseball and symptoms improve when exercise activity stops. He says that the symptoms are getting worse and the symptoms are even occurring at rest. Mother says the child is allergic to cat dander and his next-door neighbor in their apartment building recently began sheltering cats for the local humane society. Auscultation demonstrates wheezes on forced expiration throughout all lung fields.

Be sure that you are addressing the following within the body of your paper:

• Analyze processes related to cardiovascular and respiratory disorders
• Analyze alterations in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems and the resultant disease processes
• Analyze racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning
• Evaluate the impact of patient characteristics on disorders and altered physiology 

Make sure that you are following APA guidelines for writing your paper, in-text citation and references.

Instructions:

POWERPOINT!!! —  Students will chose one real quality improvement (QI) measure from approved list below and describe strategies for improving outcomes of care in the setting as it relates to the QI. 

1) Use a variety of sources of information to review outcomes of care and identify potential areas for improvement. 

2) Propose appropriate aims for quality improvement efforts. 

3) Assist leadership in shaping the dialogue about chosen QI by referencing key points of impact for providing best practices. 

4) Use a minimum of three resources cited in APA format. 

Topics:

Hospital acquired pressure ulcers (HAPU) 

Patient falls – with injury 

Catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) 

Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) 

Patient handovers 

Surgical site infections including colorectal and/or hysterectomy 

Sepsis 

Delirium 

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) 

APA Assignment 

I need a 4 pages essay with the information bellow. APA stile, with a minimum of 5 references,

1- Sickle cell disease is an adaptive response against malaria. Through evolution, this adaptation is part of the genetic disease called sickle cell disease. This genetic adaptation occurred in African people in countries that neighbor large bodies of water. Malaria is transmitted by the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito. People with sickle cell disease rarely get infected with, plasmodium falciparum,  the parasite that causes malaria. 

Describe  why such an adaptation occurred? Discuss this question to help strengthen your knowledge of disorders of erythrocytes. Explain why people who no longer live in parts of the world where malaria is prevalent still develop the disease?